While not the biggest chocolate museum I've visited (maybe I have a problem?), but this one covers the history of chocolate from the Mayan use through present day and does it efficiently.
There are some old commercials and 3 multimedia presentations (available in English as well as Spanish and I think Catalan). Signs are in the same 3 languages and there may be some audio available in Chinese and a few others if you've got a smartphone and headphones on you. (I left mine at the hotel so I read everything.
I had the place to myself for almost half an hour and it was quiet until a huge group of children descended on the place. I bet each of them pounded their tickets immediately after using them to enter the place. Let's just say that the museum was not designed to muffle sound.
Most of the displays are sculptures made of chocolate like the grizzly I photographed. Sadly, chocolate is not a long-lived medium for sculptures and some are showing their age.
If you didn't know, cacao beans were once used as currency... so I suppose you COULD grow money on a tree at one point. Also interesting is that they know that engaging the services of a "lady of the evening" was 10 beans. I guess someone found a price list whilst excavating?
They have a cafe and a shop where you can buy chocolate (YES, please!)... and entry was just 6€. If you're looking for an interesting quick thing to do in about an hour, you could do a lot worse. read more